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I N T R O D U C T I O N
The Alesis HR-16 (High sample Rate / 15 bit drum machine) iq a user {riendly,.yet
exlremely powerful MlDl drum sequencer / sound goneralor. The sound. generation
caoabiliti-es
ot the HR-16 include 16 independent drum
"voicss"' 6ach of which can bo
assigned to any ons of 49 digital samples (47 in the HR-1 6:B) , and can be routed with a 7
position pan lo one of two iets of stereb outputs' Each voics can also bs tunsd
independentty in 32 incremgnts ovor an oclave and a hal{.
The ssquencing of lhe drums is accomplished by €ntering record, and.thon playing on
the touch-sensiiive drum buttons on ths lront panel, which is thsn stored inlo a'pallern."
There can be up to 1 OO patlerns in the HR-1 6's memory (00'99). Th€ss patterns can be
anywher€ lrom 1 to 682 beats long. The patterns can be combined inio lisls of pattsrns'
which are called "songs.' There cin bs up to 1oo songs in the HR'16's memory(00-99)'
and each can contain a list of palterns up to 255 steps long.
The 16 drum pads at the front of the HR-16 ar€ vslocity'sensitive' How hard lho pad. is hit
determines tlie volume ot the drum on 8 levels. 12 of the pads (all pads sxcept Closod
Hat, Mid Hat, Open Hat, and Crash) aro €ach direcfly assigned to a voice. This means thai
playing a pad iepeatedly will retriiger the same vo'ce, and no other pad will effect that
voice.
Any sounds assigned to the three Hi Hat pads will all b€ assigned 10 tho same voice. This
is io tnat playing thE Closed Hal will cut ott the Opon or Mkl Hal, for a mors realistic hi hat
sound. The Ciash pad is assigned lo two voicEs that alternate. This means that
repealedly hitting the crash pad r-sults in lwo independent crashes (of lhs same sound)
that can ovorlap as lhoy dscay.
More sounds can bs made to overlap by assigning the same sound to two diffErent pads
and altsrnding which pad is pressed each time lho sound is to be playsd' Only 1s.voices
have been used (12 ndrmal iads, I voice lor Hi Hats, 2 lor Crash). Tho 1 6th voica is ussd
for the Click, which can also be assignsd to b€ any of ihs available sounds.
PLEASE NOTE THESE FEATURES
PROGRAM CHANGE THROUGH MIDI
This allows MlDl program solection of patterns to work while a part is playing. lf a new
program number is received over MlDl, lhis program number will be selected to be
iheI.IEXT pattern number to play when the cune-nt pattern is finished. This functions
exactly as if the new pattern irurirber had been selecled with the keypad. ll a song is
playing, MlDl program commands will be ignored.
SONG CHANGE THROUGH MIDI
MlDl program changes will select songs it the HR-16 is in Song mode, and not
prayrng.
SPOT ERASING
This allows soot erasino while in record mode whEn Quantize is OFF. The erase
button and a drum buttoi can be held down while recording with quantize off in order
to erase all drum events (quantized or not) that occur during the time that the buttons
are held down.
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